MISSION: Operation Beautiful and Secret Agent L, Affiliated Agent Style.

Um, you guys?

THIS mission is AWE.SOME.

Are you familiar with the incredible project called Operation Beautiful? If not, definitely check it out. It’s all about helping women focus on ending negative self-talk or “fat talk,” and I love it. Affiliated Agent Mommy G knocked this one out of the park by combining Operation Beautiful and the Secret Agent L Project into a tremendous mission of kindness and love.

Enjoy. And never forget the power of words.

DATE:
Thursday, 28 April 2011
{International Pay It Forward Day!}

OPERATIVE:
Affiliated Agent Mommy G

LOCATION:
Half Price Books
Countryside, IL

TIME:
11:30 a.m.

Before I even left my house to perform my Mission, I treated myself to one of my Dove Dark Chocolate Promises and the wrapper read: Feed your sense of anticipation. Love, Dove The timing just made me smile – I knew it was the right timing for sure! My card was picked and written, the envelope made up and the SAL Card placed with Love on the back of the envelope.

It wasn’t until after I did the drop and was headed home that I realized I didn’t take any pictures of what went into the bag! So I’ll tell you! One of my favorite things to take part in is another mission called Operation Beautiful – you leave random post-it notes with positive and uplifting words for other people to find. So, my first (and next 5!) SAL gifts include a brand new pad of post-it notes, a brand new pen (so you can start right then and there!) and two pieces of paper – one describing Secret Agent L (yeah, I copied it all right off of the SAL page! LOL) and one describing Operation Beautiful (again, copied it all right off of Caitlin’s page!).

The place where I did my first drop sort of picked me. I’d been to Half Price Books about a month ago and had put up two Operation Beautiful Tear-Tag Signs on the back of the women’s bathroom door. Well, when I went in at the end of last week I was surprised to see that all of the tags were gone, but the main signs remained! It touched me so much that the employees and all the different customers would leave them up! It was in that moment that I knew I would leave my first SAL Gift here.

So today, after I picked up my youngest from school, we headed over to the book store, wandered around a little while (didn’t want to be too obvious!) and then headed for the bathroom. I added two more Operation Beautiful Tear-Tag Signs and hung the Secret Agent L Gift on the coat hook.

I truly hope whomever chose to accept the gift felt the Love I had in leaving it for them. Post-It notes and a pen may not be much, but combined with the right words – they can help change a day, a week or a life!